As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through deception when explorer John Batman, an Australian who spoke in several aboriginal languages, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of speculators.
While offering the Aborigines any compensation at all was progressive in a colonial culture that preferred to simply run them off [...]
Almost everyone who comes to Copenhagen visits the little mermaid harbour. Hans Christian Andersen’s popular story is about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a merperson to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince.
Love is impulsive. In the end, the unhappy [...]
One of the world’s most stunning squares, Piazza San Marco (St. Mark’s Square) is the heart of Venice, a vast open space bordered by an orderly procession of arcades marching toward the fairy tale cupolas and marble lacework of the Basilica di San Marco.
Alwyas packed by day with people and fluttering pigeons, it can be [...]
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